This morning started pretty much like every other morning: my two youngest boys began chasing each other up and down the hallway promptly at 5 am. As if it were not enough of a wake up call for them to be up and running around at this hour, they’ve recently decided to introduce props into their routine. Tinker Toys used as “swords”. Squishy balls they throw at each other’s heads. My oh-so-favorite invention, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, run up and down the hallway... more
I spent last Friday, and the better part of this evening fine-tuning the financial model for Bluyah. I’ve been over the sales projections provided by Adam (our Director of Sales) three times now, have added new expenditures that we had previously not budgeted, and have tweaked the spreadsheet model six ways from Sunday trying to find it’s breaking point(s).
We have a few — and by Monday evening they will all have been addressed. They will have to be. Our future depends upon... more
It’s really strange. It seems like every start-up CEO I meet lately is sitting on a nice little war-chest of cash. Flush from a recent A-round, or having just cashed in their freshly-vested Amazon stock options (at a strike-price that would make a grown man cry, no less), all seem extremely enthusiastic about their latest venture (as they should) and — oddly — seemingly unconcerned with how they’re actually going to make money as a company. Sure - I know making money is... more
There is a never-ending stream of information on the Net about how to start your new company, or things to watch out for when talking with investors, or even how to properly shake hands if you’re an entrepreneur. But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of day-to-day insight from the trenches. With that in mind, I thought I’d start sharing some of the more mundane things we’ve been doing. Maybe it will resonate with an entrepreneur out there. At the very least, it will... more
One of the things I love about Bluyah is how quickly it can solve a variety of feature requests made of an application. As an IT professional, I’m constantly weighing the time it will take to develop an application feature against the benefit that feature will provide to the end-users. In some cases it comes down to simple math: will it cost our company more (in terms of a developer’s salary) than this feature will return (in terms of revenue)? In other cases it’s much more... more
In this next screencast in the series, we present a overview on how to create a Presentation Export:
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height: 50px;
text-align: left;
margin: 10px auto 0px auto;
border-collapse: collapse;
border: 0px;
}
#add-to-this TD... more